Rebecca Solnit Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Rights, People, Violence

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness”, p.27, Trinity University Press

• Think of civil society and the state as joined in a marriage of necessity. You already know who the wife is, the one who is supposed to love, cherish and obey: that's civil society. Think of the state as the domineering husband who expects to have a monopoly on power, on violence, on planning and policymaking.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Husband, Thinking, Wife

• Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Race, Class, Doe

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays”, p.16, Granta Books

• What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Change, Loss, Government

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